HEART OF GLASS: A DEEP DIVE INTO GLASS DESIGN
DESIGN - VISI MAGAZINE - JANUARY 23, 2023
It provides shelter, items essential to daily life, and so much beauty. We take a deep dive into the crystal-clear, cutting-edge fields of glass design, architecture and art.
2022 was the United Nations’ International Year of Glass. Who knew? For this unexpected celebration, the global organisation hailed the material’s countless uses – from the optical fibres that keep the internet going to storing Covid vaccines. Glass sheets are essential to solar cells; telescope glass optics help scientists study the universe; and, of course, there’s glass art and its ability to show the full colour spectrum.
IT’S ALL IN THE PAST
Glass is integral to technology today, but the sand-based material has a long history. There is naturally occurring volcanic glass such as obsidian, but the earliest examples of humans manufacturing glass date to 3500 BC in Egypt and eastern Mesopotamia.
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